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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 123 3 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 117 1 Browse Search
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 101 3 Browse Search
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 58 12 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 50 16 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 41 3 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 39 5 Browse Search
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States 28 12 Browse Search
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864. 19 1 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 18 8 Browse Search
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War matters --The intelligence of the burning of the remnant of Hampton by the invaders, occasioned a good deal of indignation yesterday. This is the only news of any importance from the Peninsula. A private letter from an officer, dated August 31 mentions the movements of our troops in the vicinity of Hampton, and says: "Gen. Batien had every opportunity to give us fight, but held off" An improbable story that General Magruder had commenced the siege of Fortress Monroe, was in circulation yesterday.--Gentlemen who arrived in the afternoon, direct from Yorktown, report everything quiet. The story of the evacuation of Newport News, by the Federals, is now disbelieved. The conjunction of the forces of Generals Wise and Floyd, at White Sulphur Springs has been effected, though it is hardly probable that they will long occupy that locality. We are assured that no backward movementwill be made. From our troops on the Potomac line there is no news, either exciting o